Brac vice-chair wins US Medical Award of Excellence

The US-based Ronald McDonald House Charities (RMHC) has awarded Brac's Vice Chairperson Ahmed Mushtaque Raza Chowdhury with its 2017 “Medical Award of Excellence”.

The award will be given at a gala in Chicago, USA, on November 11, says a press release.

The award is given for outstanding contribution to improving health and ensuring wellbeing of children. RMHC will present a grant of $100,000 to a  non-profit organisation selected by the awardee.

Mushtaque is also a professor of Columbia University, and a board member of the South Asia Centre of London School of Economics. He is also president of the Asian Action Alliance for Human Resources in Health (AAAH), and Lead Group member of UN's Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement. Among the previous winners are former US president Jimmy Carter, former US first ladies Barbara Bush and Betty Ford, health minister of Rwanda Dr Agnes Binagwaho, and Queen Noor of Jordan. Currently, the charity is working in over 64 countries and regions in the world to ensure children's healthcare and wellbeing.